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Intellectual traditions in South Africa : ideas, individuals and institutions

Vale, Peter C. J, Hamilton, Lawrence, 1972-, Prinsloo, Estelle H

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\"This rich volume not only deals with political traditions but gives attention to religious and communal intellectual practices. The scope covers interpretations of traditions such as African nationalism, Afrikaner thought, Black Consciousness, Christianity, feminism, Gandhian ways, Hinduism, Jewish responses, liberalism, Marxism, Muslim voices, Pan Africanism and posivitism. Powerful institutions and individuals were central to the various colonising and apartheid projects that directly controlled and subordinated much of the population. But the social engineering they wrought failed - and spectacularly so. In the wake of this, unintended and unforeseen spaces for individual agency and for the discovery of traditions of thinking have helped change the way we live today. \"Only by thinking about these, the ideas that made us who we are, more deeply can we re-imagine our country and the world,\" says co-editor Peter Vale. This explains why this book, which looks at our past and our present through different lenses, fills an important gap in South Africa's historiography and says new things about its politics.\"--Back cover.

• Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
• Subject: Political culture South Africa. / Social movements South Africa. / Intellectual life. / Political culture. / Politics and government / Social movements. / South Africa Intellectual life. / South Africa History. / South Africa Politics and government. / South Africa.
• ISBN: 9781869142582, 1869142586

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